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Yeah. But it's 10 paragraphs of AI nonsense that barely mentions the actual story. Who could have thought this was a good idea? It literally reads like "ai security is important, b…

So they are the proxy in the hugging face hacking incident? Way to bury that lede.

No, not really, and I don't think you need to be snarky. It may be an industry body, but it runs multiple community conferences and projects which support Open Source. A notable ex…

My best understanding from reading this is a) where possible and b) where necessary. This is the Linux Foundation, so it must put OSS and community first, surely. People talk about…

I stopped reading in anger at "That’s not an accident; it was the point." It's pretty disrespectful imo -- it feels like the reader's time is worth less than the author's.

That's what I thought, but in the 2nd para: > No Roman numerals. No Arabic numerals. No left-to-right reading direction. No assumed orientation. Something that works in a mirror, i…

I noted "warfighter" as well. Never heard that before.

I played with some of these tools 12 years ago and created "dim", but it was really just Vim with limelight and goyo in a Docker container. https://github.com/amouat/dim There is s…

I assume they just pretend to be the Googlebot so the site just gives the text.

Personal blog: adrianmouat.com

Seems to be England only. No results for Edinburgh.

It's all the same people. If you really don't know, a few of the incidents are here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c6299nrj76yo

The ladder is still there! See that pile of wood there? That's where we put the rungs. And if dig in that hole over there you might even find the extension we removed last week...

I'm pretty sure that's in development, it's just more difficult.

Also traksy e.g: https://traksy.uk/live/T+EDB+KGX+d+@2024-07-10T13:00/M+1+EDI...

Just wanted to say that I appreciate how well written this is. It does make a difference when an author can clearly and succinctly state their case.

I wrote a similar program once. To get it to be efficient I had to use a bunch of heuristics including scrabble scoring words, so it would prefer words with low scrabble scores whi…

The declining share price and profits is exactly what made it possible for IBM to buy Hashicorp. The license change didn't juice things -- it watered down the price. $6 billion is …

From @stefantalpalaru (comment dead) > The software being used to illustrate an unrelated song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7UsnI_HQYM

Support him? Start by talking to him and seeing what he thinks is fair.

I'm using this quote: "I love it but sometimes it feels like being a Morty on Rick’s adventure to the compilerland."